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In the past few weeks, the emo-nostalgia feeding frenzy has gone into overdrive. It’s one thing to have a festival like Alabama’s Furnace Fest, which at least seems loosely tied into the idea of emo as an underground music genre with connections to hardcore and to DIY in general. But now we’re looking at massive merchandising efforts like the When We Were Young festival, a corporate affair that explicitly promotes itself as a trip back through time. Also, this fall, aging emo fans with money to blow will have another opportunity to relive their glory days, except this time they’ll get to do it while surrounded by water.
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The When We Were Young Festival in Las Vegas will also feature A Day To Remember, AFI, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Avril Lavigne, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World and dozens more
After Adam Schlesinger died two years ago, there were a whole lot of touching tributes to the Fountains Of Wayne co-leader and power-pop songwriter. One of the most elaborate was a concert recorded at the Bowery Electric that was organized by his bandmate Jody Porter and was available as a video-on-demand livestream for a while last year. That v...
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